FI:SIN04 Speech interaction - Course Information

SIN04 Speech interaction and social networks

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Luděk Bártek, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Tue 10:00–11:50 C416

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)

Course objectives

The main objective of the course is to present basic technologies of the dialogue communication and its application in social networks.

Learning outcomes

After the course the student is able to:

describe the meaning of social network

describe basic principles of human to human and human to computer dialogue communication

describe the relation between emotions and prosody and how they act in social interaction using dialogue communication

propose and verify correctness and usability of dialogue communication for particular purpose

propose, verify and optionally implement a dialogue interface for particular social network.

Syllabus

• Speech communication and its social consequences.
• Speech synthesis - the basic principles and phases of the time domain speech synthesis, phonetic transcription, prosody. Practical tests of freely available text-to-speech synthesis systems. SSML - basics of syntax and its fields of application.
• Speech recognition - basic principles, tools for improvement of ASR accuracy, semantic interpretation of recognized speech.
• Human to human and human to computer dialogue communication, social aspects of dialogue systems.
• Principle terms - dialogue, utterance, turn, dialogue system, dialogue strategy. Methods of dialogue system implementation. IT supported methods of human to human and human to computer dialogue communication.
• W3C VoiceBrowser Activity - standards. Simple W3C VoiceBrowser Activity standards based dialogue systems design using the system and mixed initiative dialogue strategy.
• User modelling, modelling of computer emotions using a prosody.
• Social networks - social networking basics, types of social networks, state of the art of dialogue/discussion in the social networks, future prospects of dialogue communication in the social networks.
• Team project in the area of social networks and dialogue communication.

Literature

• LAMSER, Václav. Komunikace a společnost : úvod do teorie společenské komunikace. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1969, 298 s. info
• PSUTKA, J. Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Praha: Academia, 1995. info
• Handbook of multimodal and spoken dialogue systems :resources, terminology and product evaluation. Edited by Dafydd Gibbon - Inge Mertins - Roger K. Moore. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, xviii, 519. ISBN 0-7923-7904-7. info
• KNOKE, David. Social network analysis. Edited by Song Yang - David Knoke. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008, viii. ISBN 9781412927499. info
• SCOTT, John. Social network analysis :a handbook. Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 1991, x, 210 p. ISBN 0-8039-8481-2. info
• Models and methods in social network analysis. Edited by Peter J. Carrington - John Scott - Stanley Wasserman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, xiv, 328. ISBN 0521600979. info

Teaching methods

Theoretical Lectures with practically oriented seminars.

Assessment methods

Each student presents a lecture on a selected topic and works in a team of 2 or 3 students on a project. The project is argued at the end of the semestr.

Language of instruction

Czech

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